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The Following User Says Thank You to Katastrophi For This Useful Post:

I'm Matt McCherry, a student whom would love to work within the games industry. I'm in my first year of university and i guess now is probably the best time to get cracking out some awesome work but that's a long haul away yet! I've recently transitioned into digital painting (still not quite used to the techniques!). I've been drawing traditionally for around 6 months, with very minimal experience before that! I don't specifically want to work within concept art but being able to draw proficiently enough to be paid for it is my goal more or less but it's more recreational and i enjoy it a great deal!

Here is some of my most recent and in my opinion best work.

If you would like more of a reference of what level i'm at please check out my blog, which is updated weekly (as will this sketchbook if not more often!).http://katamatt.blogspot.co.uk/

The Following User Says Thank You to Katastrophi For This Useful Post:

i like the aircraft one that really good. the insects ones are really nice too but i think it could be improved with some more definition in certain areas. love the use of colours. the proportions on the woman are really good and the flesh tones are spot on, maybe darken the arm on the right and on the back of the neck. The hair needs some work. fruit colours are really nice, maybe a review of the lighting and shadows may improve it. also the fruit edges are very angular smoothing them off may help improve it. Overall youre sketch book is impressive. Definitely a better start than some people. keep up the good work!

Cheers, man yeah i'm working on my shading and trying to make things look more 3D and pop a bit more, i'll get it eventually just need to do more studies. I don't personally think the tones are correct, i tried not using the colour picker but i've got a long way to go yet to get it right.

Had a little warmup with Robots for some uni work they turned out not too bad, probably spent about 30 mins on these 3.

Do you know of ctrlpaint.com? It's a really great resource for learning digital painting, it really helped me! Posting daily sketches is a really great idea. I really like your figure drawing, the rendering on the legs looks good, but I think doing some more anatomy studies before focusing on rendering would really tighten it (mostly because of the feet).
Keep up the good work and have a nice day. (:

The Following User Says Thank You to owlies For This Useful Post:

@ Eternal Apprentice - Thanks very much! I was just browsing, i'll keep a look out for your Sketchbook like your work man!
@owlies - Yeah i know of ctrlpaint.com, just i need to get around to actually learning the techniques been very busy, but i'll take note from it, i need to improve my digital a lot! Yeah, i hate feet aha... I spent a long time on that image and it didn't turn out as i hoped! Just need to do individual studies of parts of the body and anatomy like you said!

Also, i've not been able to use my pc past few days so not done any digital work and my scanner is currently out of order >.< So i'm going out today to get it sorted but i should be updating this later with more work! Fingers crossed!

Just quick environment i've done tonight, no colour picking! Trying to get better with my colours Not really had time for much recently (Uni essays & module hand ins!) I'll get back on it, environments and anatomy is what i'll be doing next few posts.

Some more environment practice this morning along with some figure drawings and what not. Really trying to improve my use of colour i think both of these are out from their respective references (linked at bottom). The figure drawings are between 2-5minutes each one.

I've got some website design to do for the rest of the day (need the cash!). I'll update tomorrow though with more figure drawings and studies!

so great to see you are enjoying your journey, when you ahve the spare time, do some structure studies, i think your portraits would greatly benefit from that, other than that keep it coming, i like the color quickies do lots and lots of those!

Yeah i definitely am, i enjoy painting and drawing a whole lot if i could make it doing it that would be awesome By structure studies do you mean breaking down the face into the simpler shapes and stuff like that?

Here's something i've managed to get time to work on. My own gun concept, trying to get better at perspective. -WIP i'll finish it tomorrow but i think it's bed time for me now! Any crits are highly welcomed!